"Friendly's paid for my first year, and Newick's paid for my last three," Peg Kirkpatrick likes to say of the jobs she worked to pay her own way through UNH as an undergrad.
The Concord, N.H., native says that at the time, it was doable to work your way through a college education. These days, she's seeing it's not that easy.

The reason associate professor of mechanical engineering May-Win Thein gives back to UNH is simple: She wants her students to be studying, learning, experimenting and researching. She doesn't want them worried about where the money is going to come from to support all that.

Tori Belkin '13 wouldn't trade the 14 summers she spent as a camper and then counselor at YMCA Camp Huckins.
"Getting to see girls just be girls together and not have to worry about pressure from the outside world ... it's the whole camp culture — I just love it," says Belkin.

Four Wildcats share why they believe in the university — and in giving back

During UNH's 603 Challenge, alumni near and far are being asked to "answer the call" from their alma mater, and support the areas of the university they care most about — from academic departments to student orgs to athletics, or any other area that made their UNH experience meaningful to them.
We asked a few members of the UNH community to share their UNH story — each talked about their favorite Wildcat memories and experiences and told us why they are giving back during the challenge.

All eyes are on New Hampshire’s Senate Finance Committee, which will make its recommendation on the state budget in the coming days. The University System of New Hampshire has requested a restoration of funding in order to freeze tuition for New Hampshire students. Before heading home for the summer break, a few students took some time to tell us what a tuition freeze would mean to them.

Lixing Huang came to UNH from the other side of the world. He arrived four years ago not knowing a soul. But that didn’t last long.
On move-in day 2012, Huang '15 went floor to floor in his dorm, stopping at every open door to introduce himself to fellow Randall Hall residents.

Carol Ann Conboy, the 105th justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, will be the speaker at the University of New Hampshire School of Law's commencement May 16.
Conboy clerked for Shane Devine, the former chief judge of the New Hampshire Federal District Court. She was a partner in the New Hampshire law firm of McLane, Graf, Raulerson and Middleton and practiced as a trial lawyer with a concentration in employment law.

After a string of sentences in Arabic, Ruwa Majid-Pokorny stops speaking. "OK, tell me what I just said." There are a few quiet responses. She pauses to give a brief pep talk to the dozen or so students in her intermediate Arabic class.